[url=http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/27/politics/27CND-SCOTUS.html?ex=1057377600&en=cfd551cd8c1d05a6&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE]Justices Void Prison Term Given Gay Teenager in Kansas[/url]
In one of the first consequences of its landmark ruling on gay rights on Thursday, the Supreme Court today set aside the lengthy prison sentence imposed on a gay Kansas teenager for having had sex with a younger boy.
In a brief order with little elaboration, the court vacated the 17-year sentence imposed in 2000 on the defendant, Matthew Limon, and returned the case to the Kansas courts "for further consideration in light of Lawrence v. Texas."
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Matthew Limon was one week past his 18th birthday in early 2000 when he performed oral sex on a 14-year-old boy at the center for developmentally disabled young people where they both lived. No violence or coercion was involved.
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The American Civil Liberties Union has rallied behind Mr. Limon's case. The organization says it is not challenging a state's right to punish older teenagers for having sex with younger ones,[red](not YET at least)[/red] but rather that the rules should not be different for same-sex couples and heterosexual couples.

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This one falls in the "grey area" which will inevitably expand to blur all distinction between adult/child sexual activity.

Hey guys, if I got 17 years for every BJ I received before I was 20 years old I'd be in prison until I was Strom Thurmond's age, i.e. DEAD. Granted, they weren't from guys, but I'm pretty sure it all feels the same with the lights off. And Macallan, when I was a teenager I fucked every young teenage girl who would let me into her panties, and my only regret is that I didn't get MORE pussy than I did. So don't try to scare me with the notion that the state "might abandon prosecutions" of teens who have sex with other teens over this at the behest of the ACLU. There's no pussy like 15 year old pussy when you've got the libido of a 15 year old yourself--and anyone who disagrees with THAT has to be a fag! Or Pat Robertson (fag...)
Nobody else thinks this sentence is excessive? You guys know that two of the murderers who beat a man to death with bricks in Chicago last year (remember the van that crashed and hit a woman and the driver was killed) got FIVE years each for the MURDER today? If those examples were sentencing guidelines, then a blow job from a boy to a boy when you are teenagers is worth three murders and one involuntary manslaughter. What a deal, who knew life was so cheap?

With your sights on center chest, twice your trigger you have pressed. If those two fail to stop the fight, a shot to the head will set things right!

-D-N-: Say, didn't you just get engaged. Easy, stud...the bachelor party is a ways off! [;)]
What is the age of consent in TX? Do developmentally disabled young people fall under the same guidelines when it comes to age of consent? There seem to be quite a few different angles to attack the Kansas decision w/. I don't like the 17 year sentance handed down, but the legal end run (pun not intended) is much worse for the people.